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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
natality

late 15c., "birth," from natal + -ity. Sense of "birth rate" is from 1884, from French natalité, used in the same sense.

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natality

n. 1 (context demography English) The ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year. 2 (context philosophy English) The human ability to create new ideas, institutions and frameworks out of nothing.

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natality

n. the ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year [syn: birthrate, birth rate, fertility, fertility rate]

Usage examples of "natality".

Was not the most hateful natality of all that which meant the endless increase of starvelings and social rebels?

If it were true, too, that civilization was a check to excessive natality, this phenomenon itself might make one hope in final equilibrium in the far-off ages, when the earth should be entirely populated and wise enough to live in a sort of divine immobility.